His victim, Mr Wosskow, who now lives in The Bahamas, said he is ‘sickened’ at the conman’s reported ‘privileges’ behind bars.

Speaking exclusively to The Star from the Caribbean, he said: “I am sure those whose lives he ruined will be interested to find out how the British Justice System is treating him.

“To find out that the time he is serving is in a privileged position is not right - it is not sending the right message out to victims of crime or offenders themselves if they thing this is what awaits them behind bars.”

Mr Wosskow and Burdall met as children when they both attended Birkdale Junior School.

A prison worker refuting the claims said: “He is on a normal unit and getting paid for the job he does. He is not treated any differently to any other prisoner.

“He has not got access to anything that any other prisoner hasn’t.

“At Hatfield the deprivation of liberty is the punishment, not what we do to them in here.”